Weekly Tracker: November 10-16

TURKEY - Report 10 Nov 2013 by Murat Ucer and Atilla Yesilada

Executive Summary Erdogan’s moral crusade has exhausted all excuses. He is gunning to impose his moral standards on the rest of the nation. The campaign against co-habitation has some real costs and may expose the rifts in AKP. AKP is secure in the polls for the time being, but carrying out sanctions on mixed student housing may produce a second Gezi. The Syrian peace conference in Geneva is postponed once again, as Kurds are pushing the Arab brigades from their homeland, Rojava. Ankara’s headaches will increase going into the elections. A peace deal with Iran fell through in the last minut...

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